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Violence
Some
A murder investigation; the victim's race and social position contribute to her invisibility
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific injustice of a death that institutions don't consider worth investigating; Maisie's determination to hold fast to her principle that all deaths deserve equal attention
What this book is about
The body of an Indian woman — an ayah, a nursemaid — is found floating in a London canal in 1933. Nobody of consequence is looking for her killer. Maisie Dobbs takes the case on behalf of the woman's brother, who has come from India to find his sister. The investigation takes Maisie into the Indian community in London and into the specific invisibility of people whose deaths nobody in power considers important. Jacqueline Winspear's tenth Maisie Dobbs novel is the most explicitly about racial injustice — the gap between who gets a proper investigation and who doesn't — and marks a turning point for the series.
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